School of Health Sciences and Human Development
RPC-SO-24-No.359-2025
Nursing
The Nursing program prepares well-rounded professionals in clinical care and the human life cycle, grounded in the epistemological foundations of nursing and in administrative, educational, and research processes. The program prepares nurses who are capable of responding to the population’s health needs and problems in both hospital and community settings.
Mode of study
In-person
Duration
4 years
Why study Nursing at ECOTEC?
Ranked among Ecuador's top private universities, ECOTEC integrates international academic quality standards (QS Stars, Times Higher Education, Innovatec) with a holistic education vision. We stand as a benchmark among Ecuadorian universities committed to innovation, sustainability, and global employability.
Degree awarded: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Admission Requirements
Color copy of the national identity card or citizenship card, or passport for international applicants.
Copy of high school transcript or academic record.
Updated digital photograph.
Graduate Profile
Carry out processes of analysis and interpretation of information in diverse contexts, promoting the assessment of data to make well-founded judgments, while maintaining a reflective and respectful approach toward different positions for the purpose of contributing effective solutions to complex problems.
Effectively lead work teams, assuming commitments that contribute to the improvement and development of an organization, promoting collaborative leadership to strengthen cohesion and achieve common objectives, with an ethical and responsible attitude in joint decision-making for conflict resolution.
Generate original ideas in diverse contexts, promoting the association of concepts and the identification of relationships among factors to address challenges innovatively, while maintaining an open and flexible attitude toward change with a critical approach to implementing original and creative solutions.
Develop a logical and structured sequence of research processes autonomously and creatively to generate new knowledge and apply and strengthen existing knowledge, collecting and analyzing data clearly and coherently, while maintaining a critical and ethical approach throughout all stages of the research process.
Identify different pathologies in patients, using clinical knowledge of nursing standards and protocols to make clinical decisions and develop research activities that significantly improve patient care with efficiency and responsibility.
Demonstrate knowledge of preparing the patient environment, using clinical techniques and procedures to identify emergency situations and assess safety and infection-control aspects in order to exercise leadership in professional practice.
Apply physical patient assessment by performing psychological and emotional assessment of the patient, evaluating the function of organs and systems, and developing patient care planning to improve practices by establishing appropriate care objectives and strategies with responsibility and empathy.
Develop an accurate nursing diagnosis by establishing care-management objectives, designing intervention planning, and proposing the implementation of the hospitalized patient’s care plan in order to integrate appropriate interventions while demonstrating ethics and proactivity in professional actions.